Crumbly and Delicious Cookie Baskets With Chocolate

Decadent and full of chocolate flavor, you will love these cookie baskets that have a crust made of hazelnuts and caramel cookies. They are basically little tartlets that are wonderful for dessert, filled with a creamy chocolate filling. Making the cookie baskets is quite quick and easy, requiring only a few steps.

First, you combine ground caramel cookies and hazelnuts with butter in the bowl. Then, the mixture gets divided between muffin cups before they are placed in the freezer to set. After that, they get filled with a creamy chocolate ganache before they are refrigerated until they are set. These cookie baskets are so delicious, that you may have difficulty eating just one!

What are Cookie Baskets?

These cookie baskets are little tartlets involving a cookie crust and chocolate ganache filling. The crust includes crushed caramel cookies and hazelnuts, which are combined with butter. There is no baking required as the crust is placed in the freezer until set. The sweet nutty flavor of the crust pairs beautifully with the chocolate filling.

Pro Tips

• Using a food processor to crush the cookies and hazelnuts will ensure they blend into a fine crumb.
• Line the muffin cups with paper liners for easy removal.
• While this recipe uses caramel cookies, you can replace them with any other type of cookie that you prefer such as shortbread, graham crackers, or gingersnaps.
• Use whatever chocolate you prefer such as milk chocolate, dark chocolate, or semi-sweet chocolate.

What to Serve with Cookie Baskets?

The richness of these cookie baskets makes them perfect to serve with coffee or tea. They would also be great served with some fresh raspberries or strawberries for contrasting color and flavor.

Can I Make Mini Cookie Baskets?

Yes, if you would prefer to make smaller cookie baskets, you could make them in mini muffin cups instead. The results will be bite-sized tartlets that can be served as part of afternoon tea or as a hors d’oeuvre.

Can I Use Other Types of Cookies?

Yes, if you can’t find caramel cookies where you live, you can use another type of cookie instead as long as it doesn’t have a cream or jam filling. Shortbread, gingerbread, gingersnaps, graham crackers, or chocolate cookies would all be delicious replacements for the caramel cookies.

Can I Make the Cookie Baskets Nut-free?

You definitely could! If you or someone you plan to serve these through can’t have nuts or hazelnuts, you can replace them with additional caramel cookies.

How to Store Cookie Baskets

Since these cookie baskets contain chocolate ganache, they are best stored in a sealed container in the fridge until you are ready to serve them.

How to Make Cookie Baskets

In a bowl, stir the ground caramel cookies with the hazelnuts and butter until combined.

Divide the crumbs between lined muffin cups, pressing them into the bottom and up the sides of the muffin cups. Freeze them for 30 minutes until set.

Heat the cream until hot. Whisk it with the chocolate in a bowl until smooth. Whisk in the butter.

Divide the chocolate mixture between the cups and refrigerate them for 1 hour until set.

Serve immediately!